Modifying Steve B's example code, just add the extra characters to the end
of the RE. The slashes simply escape the fact the dot, comma and underscore
are special chars (AFAIK, haven't tested it).
<CFIF REFindNoCase("[^A-Z0-9\,\.\_]", FORM.Username, 1) NEQ 0>
... An illegal character exists
</CFIF>
Steve M
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael Gagnon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Sunday, October 29, 2000 13:30
> To: CF-Talk
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> Subject: Re: Find character not in a list (reverse of FindOneOf).
>
>
> This is great!
>
> How would I add the dash, dot and underscore to the list
> of accepted characters?
>
> TIA!!
> ________________________
> Michael Gagnon
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Steve Bernard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: "CF-Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Friday, October 27, 2000 3:42 PM
> Subject: RE: Find character not in a list (reverse of FindOneOf).
>
>
> > I'm guessing from your example code that you need to use
> REFind[NoCase]().
> > An RE is much more efficient in terms of programming time, readability,
> and
> > execution efficiency than a set of nested loops. My example
> lets you know
> if
> > there are any characters besides A-Z and 0-9, case insensitive.
> The "^" at
> > the beginning of the RE means, "not any of the following". If the parser
> > finds a non-compliant character it returns its position in the
> string. If
> no
> > offending characters are found it returns 0.
> >
> > <CFIF REFindNoCase("[^A-Z0-9]", FORM.Username, 1) NEQ 0>
> > ... An illegal character exists
> > </CFIF>
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Steve
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Steve Martin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: Friday, October 27, 2000 1:00 PM
> > To: CF-Talk
> > Subject: RE: Find character not in a list (reverse of FindOneOf).
> >
> >
> > It's gonna be a little more extensive than that. The scenario is that we
> > have a variable which contains n characters and a list which contains m
> > elements. We need a function which returns true if one of the characters
> in
> > the string does not occur in the list. For this we will have to
> loop over
> > the string and compare each character.
> >
> > <cfset stopcondition=0>
> > <cfloop from=1 to=Len(FORM.Username) index=i>
> > <cfif not ListFind(variables.SomeList, i)>
> > <cfset stopcondition=1>
> > <cfbreak>
> > </cfif>
> > </cfloop>
> >
> > <cfif stopcondition>
> > Do your stuff here
> > </cfif>
> >
> > Steve
> >
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Deanna L. Schneider [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > > Sent: Friday, October 27, 2000 15:03
> > > To: CF-Talk
> > > Subject: Re: Find character not in a list (reverse of FindOneOf).
> > >
> > >
> > > er....listfind() function I mean.
> > >
> > > -d
> > >
> > >
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